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Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2025

“Breathtaking Photographs” • First Mass of Father Michael Caughey, FSSP (Muskegon, MI)

Our choir sang so beautifully for this special Mass!

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 3, 2025

“Re: Vigil Masses” • Reader Feedback (3 June 2025)

“This question comes up twice this month, both for Pentecost and the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul.” —Marissa R.

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Andrea Leal · May 28, 2025

“The Adalbert Propers” • Six (6) Quotations

“Fewer than 1% of Catholics are able to answer these questions correctly.” —Andrea Leal

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 27, 2025

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for 29 June … Which Falls on a Sunday This Year!

Growing up, we had an encyclopedia in our basement—but that was hardly the equivalent access to the internet!

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Guest Author · May 25, 2025

“Can the Choir Sing Alone at Mass?” • Yes! And Here’s Why That Matters

A priest once suggested to me that we “mic” the people in the pews during Mass to make their responses more audible and robust.

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 23, 2025

Nobody Cares About This! • 1887 Rheims-Cambrai Gradual included “Restored” Plainsong

I’d be interested to know what Dr. Weaver thinks about how the mode is given.

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 21, 2025

What No Musicologist Can Explain!

How glorious is Gregorian Chant!

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 19, 2025

A Gentleman (Whom I Don’t Know) Approached Me After Mass Yesterday And Said…

Some may enjoy these eight brief articles on the sacred liturgy.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · May 17, 2025

“For me, Gregorian chant at the Mass was much more consonant with what the Mass truly is…” —Bp. Earl Fernandes

“When things are holy and sacred, they are perceived as such by all.” —Bishop Fernandes

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Corpus Christi Watershed · May 16, 2025

“Lindisfarne Gospels” • Created circa 705 A.D.

Lusciously resplendent illuminations created 1,300 years ago by Roman Catholic monks in North England—now available to be viewed in high resolution!

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 13, 2025

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Fifth Sunday of Easter

I’m not a bishop. I’m not even a priest. I’m a husband & father who just wants to make it to heaven.

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 12, 2025

“Sanctus XVIII” • Peculiar-Yet-Haunting Accompaniment (Sent To Us)

“When the Vatican Edition began coming off the press in 1905, its strongest supporters did not expect it to last until 1960…” —Mons. Schmitt

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Veronica Moreno · May 12, 2025

Chants That Crowds Roar With Burning Hearts

Something special happens when your Pope intones a chant and everyone sings with full hearts. Neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones work together to bind people together. This is why sacred music transforms hearts!

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Jeff Ostrowski · May 8, 2025

Cardinal Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) “Privately Offered the TLM in His Private Chapel”

Allegedly, the source of this information “had the only indult to say the TLM at the USCCB office in Baltimore back in the 1990s.”

Corpus Christi Watershed · May 7, 2025

Reader Feedback • Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” at a Nuptial Mass?

“Isn’t Mendelssohn’s wedding march largely frowned upon in the Catholic Church?” —A reader

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

«In the same quarter where he was crucified there was a garden.» (John 19:41) — The word “garden” hinted at Eden and the fall of man, as it also suggested through its flowers in the springtime the Resurrection from the dead.

— Fulton J. Sheen

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